Answer for question 4486.

[jazzy_dave]

[Error: unknown template qotd]My most useful tool at home is the spatula i use for my eggs on toast. Comfort food at the best. It would be a great misgiving if i did not have it. I do lack a garlic crusher , as that would be most useful.

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Back of a broad bladed knife works damn well as a garlic crusher!

Place garlic on chopping board, place knife blade on top, bring down fist.

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

Just what I was going to suggest!!

[robby.livejournal.com]

I think that goes against the appliance ethic. You're supposed to have a special, separate tool or machine for every little task. I'm saving up for a banana slicer!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Good set of pots and pans and standard kitchen tools- all of those high quality steel and a good set of knives does most things for me. In my case they're a good set of left handed knives.

As for electrickeral things- panini press, slow cooker and bread maker!

Not sure my head cook grandma would have approved of those last three though! :o)

[robby.livejournal.com]

With the popularity of head cooks, I wonder if anyone's yet invented a special crock pot for that?

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

She was certainly familiar with cooking a sheep's head! :o)

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Is a tv considered an appliance? lol........

I would like to have a food processor, or maybe an ice cream maker. :)
Hugs, Jon

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Now an ice cream maker sounds fab!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I tried to look for one last year I think it was, and just wasn't happy with any I saw. :p

[vespican.livejournal.com]

For me, it's gotta be the microwave!
Dave

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is another kitchen appliance i would hate to be without.

[hopefulspirit.livejournal.com]

My Kitchenaid mixer is my essential. I know it's not really an essential but it makes my baking life so much easier. lol

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

If you decide to get garlic gadgets, I recommend two:

The Ultimate Garlic Peeler
NexTrend Garlic Twist

[evilzerg-r.livejournal.com]

How many people don't want you to have a garlic crusher. As for me - bed, anything where I can sleep. Once I had a rent offer with no furniture and the bed was my first concern.

[robby.livejournal.com]

You can also use the bed to crush garlic. Anything heavy.

[evilzerg-r.livejournal.com]

sure

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Kind of drastic though.

[robby.livejournal.com]

Especially for the downstairs neighbors.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

My blood glucose tester. In theory, it's helping me extend my life span.

After that, it's probably my laptop. I spend more time on it than on anything else other than sleeping.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

My cooking skills are so impressive... I'm not allowed to touch anything as complicated as a spatula :(

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

LOL :)

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

SPATULAS ARE ESSENTIAL. I definitely love your answer here. :D

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

LOL !! Thanx!

[markmc03.livejournal.com]

If a tv or a computer is not considered an "appliance", then I would have to say I would be lost without my microwave. How odd that radiated atoms would have such a calming effect on me.

[lora-diary.livejournal.com]

Multicooker.

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

I think we call that an egg lifter here and it sure IS useful!

You'd better invest in a garlic crusher, then. I've actually had three but now can't eat the stuff, more's the pity. Crushing it with the side of a largish knife is a very good way of doing it.

Trying to think what I like the best. Probably my fan forced over, which has a timer on it. Next to that, my double saucepan.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

I'm astonished that no one else has named the refrigerator yet. As far as hand tools go, I'd name the can opener as hardest to improvise an alternative for.